Experience first-hand the change sweeping through Latin America in the areas of food sovereignty, indigenous resistance, climate justice, and human rights through a trip to Bolivia or Venezuela this summer.

When candidates for the presidency go through peaks and depressions during a campaign, we often see them do well then struggle; while sometimes recovering and others not. We don't like to think of elections this way, but typically there are the establishment candidates vs. everyone else. Somehow, no matter the gaffes, mess ups, political failures or other foul-ups, establishment candidates somehow rise above it all. We're told they are the establishment favorites and almost always they get the spot the establishment wants for them, be it in the lead up to the primaries or in the general elections.

National economies are now subject to the pressures of this supra-national financial "market" and to the institutions helpful to this market like the IMF and the European Central Bank. "Bailout umbrellas" at the expense of the common taxpayer are opened up.